tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post6450739352325991532..comments2024-01-02T23:22:21.430-05:00Comments on The Guild Review: Ernst Jünger on Technology (2)Aaron Lindermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992073027586818751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-42365573760094400792013-03-06T23:11:37.741-05:002013-03-06T23:11:37.741-05:00For anyone still interested in this discussion, he...For anyone still interested in this discussion, here are some excerpts from Klaus Vondung's book <i>The Apocalypse in Germany</i> dealing with Jünger's <i>Der Arbeiter</i>:<br /><br /><a href="http://voegelinview.com/all-Current-Articles/apocalypse-in-germany-pt-1/All-Pages.html" rel="nofollow">Part 1</a><br /><br /><a href="http://voegelinview.com/all-Current-Articles/apocalypse-in-germany-pt-2/All-Pages.html" rel="nofollow">Part 2</a>Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-68899512519874445242013-01-13T23:19:49.014-05:002013-01-13T23:19:49.014-05:00I remember having a very similar discussion with a...I remember having a very similar discussion with a friend from high school about precisely this topic, about capitalism's ability to coopt opposition. After all, we owe the craft beer movement to this characteristic of capitalism, even though it is an attempt to overcome the bad beer of earliest stages of capitalism. (I sound like a drunk Marxist.) I do wonder, though, how far technology will allow us to undo the bad effects of earlier technology. It's an interesting question to which I have no answer.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-42600920666239040282013-01-13T14:53:21.180-05:002013-01-13T14:53:21.180-05:00Although the merger of man and machine that Jünger...Although the merger of man and machine that Jünger saw in the First World War and in modern industrial capitalism still continues, it seems to me there's interesting, though limited, push-back.<br /><br />In ages past, one drank Coke or Pepsi; there were no other choices. Now one can drink locally-produced organic sodas. Likewise, one can listen to obscure indie bands, a practice which, if not quite hearkening back to pre-radio local music, at least permits a certain degree of individual escape from the mass culture enabled by technology.<br /><br />That having been said, where does one buy such organic soda, and listen to indie music? Probably at Whole Foods and on iTunes, respectively. Thus, one could argue that even these bits of individual identity are constrained by mass technoculture; but alternatively, one could argue that technology is permitting the individual to carve out a space against the very culture the technology permitted in the first place. Aaron Lindermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15992073027586818751noreply@blogger.com